# liblouis: Classical/Biblical Hebrew with no shewa or dagesh (Katz) # #-index-name: Hebrew, classical, slim #-display-name: Classical Hebrew braille without shewa or dagesh # #+language: hbo #+language: oar #+language: arc #+language: jpa #+language: obm #+language: xdm #+language: phn #+type: literary #+contraction: partial #+system: Katz #+dots: 6 #-license: lgpl-2.1 # This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this file; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA # liblouis comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. # The first Hebrew Braille table hosted on LibLouis was developed by # the Library for the Blind and the Ministry of Education in # Israel. It is intended for use with Modern Hebrew. # Please see World Braille usage 3rd edition, p. 74. # # The tables hbo.utb, hbo-cantillated.utb, and hbo-slim.utb are designed for Classical Hebrew (also called Biblical Hebrew). Classical Hebrew contains vowels, punctuation, and cantillation marks not used in Modern Hebrew. # # This table translates according to the standard in # Eliezer Katz, Hebrew Braille: A Manual for Hebrew Braille and # Basic Hebrew (with Attention to Transcribers), New York: JBI # International, 1961. # It is the most compact of the three systems, including all vowels # except shewa, excluding dageshes where they are represented by # dot 5, and including only the punctuation marks paseq, etnahta, # and sof pasuq. # For Hebrew with shewa and dagesh but limited cantillation, see hbo.utb. # For fully cantillated Hebrew, see hbo-cantillated.utb # # All three tables forward-translate Hebrew and uncontracted English # and back-translate Hebrew. They provide access to critical editions # of the Hebrew Bible, such as Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and # Biblia Hebraicaa Quinta, as well as rabbinic and liturgical texts. # They also work for cognate languages that used the common Northwest # Semitic linear alphabet in antiquity, including Old and Imperial # Aramaic, Moabite, Edomite, and Phoenician (as, for example, in # the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum and Kanaanäische und Aramäische # Inschriften). # Developed by Eric J. Harvey with support from the national # Endowment for the Humanities (USA) and Stanford University. # Many thanks to Leonard de Ruijter, Sarah Blake LaRose, Matthew # Yeater, and Paul Geoghegan for their help developing and testing the # tables, and to Abby Howell for suggesting the inclusion of Yiddish # characters and reviewing code. #-maintainer: Eric J. Harvey <eric@blindscholar.com> #-author: Eric J. Harvey <eric@blindscholar.com> # Copyright (C) 2025 Eric J. Harvey # Include common characters include braille-patterns.cti include hbo-slim-rules.uti # punctuation back translation nofor always ׃ 256 nofor always ־ 36 nofor always ֔ 2 nofor always ֑ 23 # Further includes include digits6Dots.uti include litdigits6Dots.uti include latinLetterDef6Dots.uti include en-ueb-chardefs.uti # Braille indicators capsletter 6 begcapsword 6-6 endcapsword 56 numsign 3456 numericmodechars ., nocontractsign 56 nonumsign 56 numericnocontchars abcdefghij